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A history: Monuments to Courage, a History of Beaver County

mcbooki237p171: Judge Hawley Writes the War Department (cont.), Civil Government of Beaver County

and its executive officers are ready to proceed. If you establish a post at Beaver, or near there, it ought to be done by the last of April or the first week in May. At that season it will be the best time to move troops, supplies, etc. By that time the roads from there will be in the best possible condition. Soon after the first week in May the weather becomes hot and dry. "Hoping to hear from you soon and favorably upon these suggestions, I have the honor to remain, "Respectfully," (Signed) C. M. HAWLEY." The "Knob" referred to, means Kanab. At the time when the letter was written there were about thirty surveyors under the command of Major Powell, engaged in Government work, stationed at Kanab, and not an armed force. of one hundred and twenty men to resist the enforcement of law and order as stated. An official who administers justice must express the truth. Judge Hawley was grossly wrong in his covert intimation that the non-enforcement of the laws was due to an antagonism by the Mormon people. The people, however, did not object to the presence of troops at Beaver, but rather welcomed them as an addition to the volume of the business in the vicinity. CIVIL GOVERNMENT OF BEAVER COUNTY In September, 1856, the year that Beaver was settled, and ten years before Beaver County was created by a leg-islative enactment, a full set of County Officers was appointed. The Honorable Judge Lorin W. Babitt, was called, and came to Beaver to install provisional officers to act, until a regular election. The following appointees were duly sworn and gave bonds and security to the approval of the court, with Judge Babitt presiding:

and its executive officers are ready to proceed. If you establish a post at Beaver, or near there, it ought to be done by the last of April or the first week in May. At that season it will be the best time to move troops, supplies, etc. By that time the roads from there will be in the best possible condition. Soon after the first week in May the weather becomes hot and dry. "Hoping to hear from you soon and favorably upon these suggestions, I have the honor to remain, "Respectfully," (Signed) C. M. HAWLEY." The "Knob" referred to, means Kanab. At the time when the letter was written there were about thirty surveyors under the command of Major Powell, engaged in Government work, stationed at Kanab, and not an armed force. of one hundred and twenty men to resist the enforcement of law and order as stated. An official who administers justice must express the truth. Judge Hawley was grossly wrong in his covert intimation that the non-enforcement of the laws was due to an antagonism by the Mormon people. The people, however, did not object to the presence of troops at Beaver, but rather welcomed them as an addition to the volume of the business in the vicinity. CIVIL GOVERNMENT OF BEAVER COUNTY In September, 1856, the year that Beaver was settled, and ten years before Beaver County was created by a leg-islative enactment, a full set of County Officers was appointed. The Honorable Judge Lorin W. Babitt, was called, and came to Beaver to install provisional officers to act, until a regular election. The following appointees were duly sworn and gave bonds and security to the approval of the court, with Judge Babitt presiding: